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Announcing SlashBI

SourceForge and our sister site, Slashdot, have long served as go-to places for developers and other IT pros looking to learn more about whatâ€™s going on in tech. Weâ€™ve noticed a recent uptick in demand for information on business intelligence, and decided to fill it with a new site called SlashBI, which will offer a variety of news and expert commentary on this fast-growing segment.

SlashBI will cover everything from B.I. fundamentals for developers, to open-source hypervisor projects, to best practices for handling Big Dataâ€”and that’s just for starters. Plus, thanks to the power of the series of tubes we call the Internets, the site will feature copious images, diagrams and video.

SlashBI is just our first site dedicated to a particular tech subject. Please swing by, take a look, and let us know what you think.

Projects of The Month

Octave-Forge - a central location for the collaborative development of packages for GNU Octave. The Octave-Forge packages expand Octave's core functionality by providing field specific features via Octave's package system. For example, image and signal processing, fuzzy logic, instrument control, and statistics packages are examples of individual Octave-Forge packages.

SharpDevelop - the open-source IDE for the .NET platform. Write applications in languages including C#, VB.NET, F#, IronPython and IronRuby, as well as target rich and reach: Windows Forms or WPF, as well as ASP.NET MVC and WCF. It starts from USB drives, supports read-only projects, comes with integrated unit and performance testing tools, Git, NuGet and a lot more features that make you productive as a developer.

Staff Pick:

TortoiseSVN - a Subversion (SVN) client, implemented as a Windows shell extension. It's intuitive and easy to use, since it doesn't require the Subversion command line client to run. Simply the coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control!